Camp Randall

Camp Randall is a historic US Army site in Madison, Wisconsin. It was built in 1861 during the American Civil War and named for Governor Alexander Randall, and over 70,000 Union Army recruits were trained there. It also served as a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate States Army prisoners-of-war, and 170 Confederates died in captivity. The site was purchased by the state in 1893 to prevent it from being used as building lots, and the Camp Randall Stadium was built in 1917, covering the vast majority of the former muster ground. However, 5 acres of the site were reserved as a historic US Army site.